Hot Stuff Baby!

[securespark]

Hot, hot, hot!

 

[JohnD]

obviously you have four bathrooms, with different colour suites in each, and you only use one at a time.

I'm surprised you didn't call them "coral" "aubergine" "avacado" etc

 

[Spark123]

Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree, but isn't that an NN range CU?

 

[securespark]

It's not my install!

Never mind shooting the spark for putting 4x 40A shower circuits on a single board, along with a 32A RF circuit.

The plumber needs shooting for installing pink, green, purple & black suites...

 

[ban-all-sheds]

pink, green, purple & black...

Had he been smacked in the eye about a week previously?

 

[Aragorn84]

So what exactly is the problem?

The fact that if all 4 (or even 3 of 4) showers were on it would exceed the 100A rating?

Shouldnt the supply to the CU be protected by a fuse to stop exactly that happening?

 

[toasty]

What's plugged into the Ring Final circuit?

My money is on another shower or two!!

 

[ericmark]

So what exactly is the problem?

The fact that if all 4 (or even 3 of 4) showers were on it would exceed the 100A rating?

Shouldnt the supply to the CU be protected by a fuse to stop exactly that happening?

I would agree if as you say supply is protected to 100A. Although I had a boss wanting me to do something similar.

300A three phase supply to whole factory with whole of office block on one phase I was fighting a losing battle to stop use of fan heaters originally used storage heaters which used power when factory not running but people would turn off power as they were too hot then next day would be cold so would find a fan heater.

Then a shower block was built this promised to be cure and I saw the guy responsible for building and though I have persuaded him to install oil central heating.

But returned from holiday to find 4 electric units ready for me to wire up. It seems he has asked supply authority if the offices could have their own supply and was told yes. No one priced this though.

So a 200A board was installed as it was pointed out showers would not be used until people finished work so factory would be idle.

Then twin shifts were introduced overlapping so process did not need to stop. Ups!

Things change. My father has three showers. One in bathroom over bath. He has problems getting in and out so one fitted in bedroom stand alone. Then mother lost a leg so wet room made downstairs. But there are only two of them so only every can have two showers used at same time.

However if house changed hands that could alter. So should one say you can't have four showers wired up?

It is not that simple as long as overload is protected against either fuse or breaker then I see no problem.

If you install a combi boiler you don't say you can only have one hot tap as it can't supply two together so why any different with electric?

 

[ricicle]

As I've said before, I'd be concerned with the water supply to be able to cope with 3 or 4 electric showers running at the same time !

 

[bernardgreen]

Arrange the working rota / appointments in the establishment such the showers are used in rotation one at a time.

If you install a combi boiler you don't say you can only have one hot tap as it can't supply two together so why any different with electric?

It should be mentioned about only one tap at a time. But if it was then fewer people would opt to install a combi if there was a choice.....